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315 Bowery at Bleecker Street.
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CBGB's: Legendary place....suprised it doesn't burn down
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    • scottyrocknyc
  • By scottyrocknyc on May 8, 2004
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    • What can you say...this place is legendary...EVERYONE played here....including Blondie, The Police, The Talking Heads, etc...

    Place is dive-like and the wall are plastered with newpapers, and concert posters....

    great music here all the time!!!!

    No dress code....actually, don't dress up....you'll look and feel like an ass.....

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  • Theme: Live Music
  • Directions: #6 train to Bleecker Street station.
  • Website: http://www.cbgb.com
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    CBGB's: CBGB's
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    • farseek
  • By farseek on August 25, 2002
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    • This is where the Ramones, Talking Heads and a score of other bands started out.

    Various

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  • Theme: Live Music
  • Directions: Bowery Street, South Manhattan
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    CBGB's: CBGB
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    • Razorart
  • By Razorart on August 25, 2002
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    • CBGB's - New York City
    by Razorart
    Oh, come, you know!!

    Punk RAWK!!!!

    Actually, not everyone in here has a mohawk, tattoos and piercings anymore.

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  • Theme: Live Music
  • Directions: Bowery @ east second st.
  • Other Contact: This is a picture of Beatchik on
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    CBGB's: CBGB
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    • bklynbrawl
  • Updated By bklynbrawl on August 25, 2002
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    • CBGB's - New York City
    by bklynbrawl
    The mecca of punk !
    Bands such as Blondie,the Ramones,Plasmatics and others started playing here in the 70's.Back then this place was a hole in the wall with a filthy,grafitti covered bathroom.In 2002 it is a hole in the wall with a filthy,grafitti covered bathroom.Cheap cover charge,lots of brain-blasting music and always a fun time ! And hard rock/punk band members sometimes show up and jam ocasionally after their NY concerts.Example-Metallica,Motorhead,Guns n Roses,etc.

    Anything that can be washed or thrown out after having beer spilled on it.
    Black leather,long biker hair, blue mohawks and shaved heads are very acceptable.
    So are tough women.

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  • Theme: Live Music
  • Directions: 315 Bowery at Bleecker Street. #6 train to Bleecker Street station.
  • Other Contact: www.cbgb.com
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    CBGB's: CBGB's
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    • Rude_boy22
  • Updated By Rude_boy22 on September 7, 2002
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    • CBGB's - New York City
    by Rude_boy22
    Short for Country, BlueGrass, and Blues; CBGBS was a dive bar that was created for a different kind of music than what it later was to become. Started by a large, friendly biker, a friend tried to convince him to book their band, the Neon Boy Outsiders, on weekends. Reluctant to allow them to play, he was finally convinced after bass player Richard Hell convinced him his band, later renamed Television, had all those influences in them. The bar went under, and was host to drug dealers, cross dressers, and every kind of street life imaginable. The only nights that had alot of visitors was the nights Television played. He began allowing other heavy, experimental rock bands to play. Up and comers in bands by the name of The Ramones, Blondie, The Dead Boys, and Television began to play there regularly and to large crowds. A fashion designer took the image and sounds back to England with him and put together a little band called the Sex Pistols. There are still plenty of bands that fit the proto-punk genre playing at CBGB's. When I went, about eight bands played, including a funk band called the Velvet Mafia. It was led by a seven foot tall crossdresser. Their Bowery locale keeps the tourists to a minimum, despite it's being a fairly safe place to go to for it's location. It now also supports an art gallery and experimental film venue next door called OMFUG.

    Black Leather, ripped T-shirt, drag, clownsuit, whatever

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  • Theme: Live Music
  • Directions: 1313 Bowery
  • Other Contact: http://www.cbgb.com
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    CBGB's: CBGB's BEE BEE's.
    Bela_LUng
  • Updated By Bela_LUng on December 11, 2005
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    • CBGB's is the punk mecca of America. The Ramones, Blondie, and Lionel Ritchie have all played here. Ok, maybe not Lionel, but I think he will one day when he tours with Metallica! YEAH!

    The place knows it has a rep, so they tend to charge a pretty penny at the door to get in sometimes. The bar is a small sliver in the Bowery but when there's a good show on, the place is awesome.

    Oh, it's dirty as *** in there too. But who cares.

    The funniest thing I ever saw here was a bunch of preppy chicks who came into the place on a Pub crawl gone horribly wrong. They stayed about 10 minutes. It was hillarious. They all sorta freaked out and melted in a pool of makeup on the floor.

    Update: CBGB's appears to be closing its location and going (possibly?) somewhere else. See while you have the chance :\

    Whatever goes.

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  • Theme: Live Music
  • Directions: #6 train to Bleecker Street station.
  • Website: http://www.cbgb.com
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    CBGB's: Uh... it's closed.
    Karnubawax
  • By Karnubawax on January 16, 2007
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    • Sorry guys... CBGB's is closed. In what is either an encouraging or very troubling sign of the times, there are reports that the entire club will be dismantled and reassembled in Vegas.

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  • Theme: Nightclub
  • Directions: #6 train to Bleecker Street station.
  • Website: http://www.cbgb.com
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